what's up everyone my name is Ahmso and
welcome back too For Honor now small
difference from what I've been doing
lately is I'm gonna be doing the orders
this time
so in this case it wants me to do play
vs AI which is fine i'm going to skip
this one for now but then this one's
player vs AI and this was play versus
and so we're going to do an AI gameplay
we need to be renowned 250 up score
points on this one and that's when we
need to kill 15 Dominion matches which
is fine fairly easy
the 1i probably have trouble with his
performance five executions in a
Dominion match
I don't know how to do fucking
executions but that's here are there
let's continue and do some may I
Dominion meshes I thought this was AI oh
yeah is that ok ok so we exploit other
people
nice to continue where we left off ok so
I'm going to continue with this I'm
really quick that's not the same person
that's what i want w-w-w she really
enjoyed what is this passive rapidly
route what passes rapidly revive fallen
teammates are awesome
oh I like the iron lung a little bit
better to be honest yeah i like to be
able to run I gotta run away from people
so yeah that's a such as I guess we're
ready
oh they're waiting for me my bad we got
25 of these matches that have to do five
execution it looks like here we go here
we go guys this is actually one thing
I'm super glad that they're doing is
they're doing i guess i guess they are
dailies on when we start there we go go
go
that was a little weird and controller
plugged a little bit
so I guess so always shit we are I guess
winning like crazy
oh my boys down my boys down gotta get
enough gotta give up
we're getting close here we go here we
go out we got some got there you go out
you know camps like a shield likable
know ya got ok
shit with the left another person ok
I'll event long so i'll go go
don't get up oh shit I got you I got you
buddy here and there damage it can get
up
o our shit come on someone else ever get
up
yes like you down the boy oh boy oh yes
he is awesome
don't cheat i get up like a smart
him of matter where you come then
execution I don't know
ok oh he got me have it
Cabot fast there we go there we go
oh boy i'm going to get out of here get
here stroke you doing out here
oh no get out of here
aw dammit we get healed we gotta get
healed general waste lost shit get a
jump shifts
I don't know shit we go we go buddy
oh you have this can have this back you
get back here like a broken arm
there we go to capture my help
nice nice ok heal up
often awesome go back down trying to
take over see there we go that low of
doing stereo we got to we got a nice
victory is ours awesome over go through
results very good we want to shit
ok
oh we got this we got this cause I
haven't seen bullshit
nothing the beginning of the symbol for
awesome little trick ray I want to go
for B if they want bi-metal strip friend
I want to get those up get those points
lost you capture ok nice ok go's the boy
take that shit okay he's nicer are
fucking fat-ass correct it then that's
what got me good
I feel super bad about that i got rekt
by a bot okay you got this way
what's up here i want what is up here I
was just a quick rapture age
oh it's good to know ok we're capturing
again you capture donate ok i guess the
go to the middle against others look at
him but users easily directly i got it
there you go
oh my god that was awesome how the fuck
did I do that I think that was an
execution
how do you keep that my way buddy you
eat it
shit flick hope it's all I thought I had
an execution for a second i was the god
I'm clear about the square mouse always
you see what you see you must see you
coming down the ladder
let's go let's go let's go but you see I
gotta go after him go get my revenge and
especially to go of their uses up there
oh shit my teammates my buddy
shit no you do it
oh shit you capture ok she okay
survival's no you left us okay get back
here back here w she get back here cool
stop running away from me finally feel
this place you can just run them right
away from me will capture so days
there we go 925 your government i
keeping my own teammate visit
kill their heroes ok ok I think he's
going up to see you go to see all the
power here thinking oh yes oh shit going
to his shit shit shit there we go got
gifts all the guys gonna see if you
wanted to teach you gotta get we gotta
get him back here just get our you see
again so much fun we got speed to
capture so let's keep it going to try to
find where to go where to go but
somewhere up there's one there's one
voice boy WC very up our shit
there we go oh yeah nice nice my point
is dead
let's get them picking them up now he's
got a gun okay I'm those bloodthirsty
also has ok here we go then go straight
for seat
everyone's going to a I'm negotiate for
see them i'm pretty sure that's what
they're boys but yep that's what they're
going to be at all right come here boy
let's go let's go oh she got me you got
me through your heels
oh shit he got me have it
haha correct about a way how to start
this thing we got this we got there we
go get it get it
shit they're ago i got you i catching
some a nice ok best that's what down but
down likely to jump off this I can't
dammit
ok girls go in a circle
get back here get back here
I'm after anybody really matter you can
bet on your feet
oh not gonna happen never go oh no shit
the abbot he got me he needed me to have
it back seat looks like one of that one
other person is over there went over to
get there we go there we go there we go
oh nice nice
oh oh look at that we have love will be
okay we got that we got that with
everyone out drop a taste
oh I didn't clear the place you lost
just got their God cup
let's go buddy go Father just got me so
pay to pick up kicks off
oh hell yeah that's one way of doing it
some of the most o the back-to-back here
to graduate
got to got like okay my stamina stamina
boy
oh shit you got it you got it so I can't
jump down i want to jump down and jump
off of it so much easier
alright Lucy Lucy I got you I got a boy
i got this shit get up there are just
awesome awesome boy he left was going to
heal them up
ok it's ok we're good for good
we got this why we lost a all here now
okay don't know shit oh shit oh crap
double-teaming not cool
I get my stamina back down there we go i
get my stamina though shit
oh look at that taking off kicking off
oh the guys i do the super dangerous
least I need my stamina in my family to
capture so I've gotta because there we
go there we go i was select kill their
heroes
okay Ross stamina up where they're ours
a hero that with the heroes
c'mon is getting execution
there we go did get an execution but
it's okay it's okay i can do it up thing
oh I think my arrows in nice that it
that's it anyways thank you guys for
watching for honor if you guys enjoyed
this video hit that like button leave a
comment down below if you knew anything
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more content such as this and as always
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Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies Collaborates to Build Interactive 3D Campus Database - Duration: 3:41.
So the overall goal of the basemap is
to collect as much data
about campus as we possibly can and
using whatever technology at our
disposal to package that in a
way that is useful for students so a lot
of the data we can create in the center
on the computer you know you can get a
lot of good data online but a lot of the
data was just not there before so we had
to go out and get it. I would say one of
the big things was that we created a
database of geospatial information that
is open to any student staff faculty
researchers at Clemson and the general
public to use. They're free to take it and
use it in their own projects, modify it in
any way. And we were able to to create a
database just for Clemson's campus that serves as
a useful starting point for
other sorts of applications in a lot of
disciplines. So one of the major goals for
the project was to bring people together not
only us at the Center itself,
looking at coordination of different parts
of the project but also coordinating
with other units on campus, such as facilities
planning, the library, utilities, there's
been a huge need for many units looking
at a base core dataset, a
geographic data set that allows them to put
their own applications, their own data on
top of it. So we wanted this data to be
used by all these units by also trying to
bring them together and that's something
that we've seen growing and happening much
stronger after we delivered the first part
of the project. We created browser-based
applications that can be used by Clemson
community to find places around campus like
buildings, places to eat, parks,
bike racks, there are also mobile versions
available for those applications that
could be used by Clemson students
faculty or staff.
Other department helped us to build
idea of how to collect the 3d data and
how to create buildings with this kind of
data and it helps to like develop our
project. There are a lot of collaboration
that had happened after we presented our
projects like we collaborated with the
libraries on two projects, mapping the
historic campus and creating 3D Cooper.
Creating 3D Cooper library and
we are also collaborating with the
visualization department of CITI,
doing a virtual reality of Clemson
campus using Oculus Rift.
I mean it helps to give the Clemson
community to visualize the
the building of our campus and
it also can help to give a
visualized tour of all the
campus. It was a long summer. But you know
it was nice to be out in the sun and get to see
parts of campus that I've never seen before.
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31 Days of Yoga with Adriene! - Duration: 5:07.
Hello my friends! Kaitlyn here! And let's do some yoga!
Um, when did this become a fitness channel?
(INTRO MUSIC)
Okay! So we're not actually gonna be doing yoga on the channel today,
BUT I have been doing a lot of yoga recently and I wanted to talk about it's awesomeness!
So I've been a fan of yoga since college when I first tried it and found I loved it
because it combined two of things I valued and needed--flexibility and breathing exercises.
Now there's a whole lot more to yoga than flexibility and breathing exercises but that
is where I started for me.
But once out of college, I was pretty apprehensive about taking public classes because
First I didn't have any money because I hadn't found a job yet and then when I did
find a job, the classes were offered at really inconvenient times
and I'd have to travel at least 30 minutes to get to the closest studio...so it was just a bust.
BUT THEN!
In January of 2015, I stumbled across on the Internet Yoga with Adriene's 30 Day Yoga challenge.
Pretty self-explanatory: guided yoga videos on Youtube.
A new one uploaded everyday in January.
And I thought. What the heck? It's free. I can do it in my bedroom. Why not?
And so began my love affair with yoga and Adriene's presentation of it.
As of this past Tuesday, I've completed my 3rd 30 day Yoga "Challenge" with Adriene, and I'm feeling awesome.
Especially awesome because this is the first year that I actually did yoga every day.
In the past, I would skip a day here or there when I was feeling sore or sick or just too busy.
Essentially, it made a month long challenge take like 2 months. Ah!
But this time, I was like: What will happen if I just stick with it.
Even if that means doing yoga at 11 pm or when I'm super sore or just feeling awful.
And yes, it did make for days where I did not enjoy the yoga.
But it has absolutely made me stronger.
So here's what I love about Adriene's program and channel in general.
(And why I would recommend you check it out, do some yoga videos and maybe even try a 30 day challenge!)
First, it's an "exercise" program that'smore about being in tune with your body than "getting ripped."
Now that's not to say it's not challenging or unable to get you in shape because
I was sweating and shaking doing these videos!
It's because of the 2nd thing I love about this channel which is that Adriene emphasizes a mindfulness for
your body and your mind which is something that I unfortunately had not experienced in other yoga classes.
It's not about slamming into different poses and trying to fit the "mold"
but rather about seeing where your body's at and listening to it and seeing what it's telling you.
I didn't really listen to my body until watching her videos.
I would just get angry at myself for not being able to do what I thought my body should do.
I have really horrific memories of high school where I was tryingto learn choreography for show choir
and I would practice in my room and fail and so I would hit and smack, like violently my legs and my
arms and try to punish my body to kick it into gear because it wasn't doing what I wanted.
But that's not how that works. And that is not healthy.
Adriene's motto is "Find What Feels Good" which I thought was kind of corny at the very beginning
but, man! When you finally learn how to listen to your body,you realize how important that is and what it means.
I want exercising -- being physical -- to feel good!
And it absolutely can!
Third, I find such a sense of peace.
Adriene is very positive but in a realistic way.
"Everything is as it should be."
She not only has us focus on working the physical body but also the emotional, spiritual one.
She asks you to get kind of raw, kind of silly, kind of open.
Which I think works really well when you're doing it from the comfort and safety of your home.
And I've definitely left some of these workouts feeling completely zen or just with chills.
As someone with pretty overwhelming anxiety, this is a very rare and great occurrence for me.
Now, I know there are probably classes that have more of this mindset than I've previously experienced.
And now that I'm living in a new, bigger city, I need to go out there and find it!
But I love Adriene and her channel for the positivity, the light, the self-love that she's projecting into the world.
All of this is to say, you should go try some yoga. Whether you you want to lose weight
Or be more flexible. Or you suffer from anxiety like me!
You can try Adrienne's channel or one of the many other yoga channels that are out there on YouTube.
Or you could even try a real, live, in-person class! I don't care how you do it!
But I know that it was beneficial for me so I think it might be beneficial for you too.
So what do you guys think?
Do love yoga or watch Adriene?
Do you think yoga's only for girls.... (cuz it's not!)
Tell me all your yoga-related thoughts down in the comments!
Plus remember to like, favorite, share, and subscribe if this video made you smile!
See you guys on Tuesday!
(OUTRO MUSIC)
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DCA Rally: Joann Spotted Bear Speaks, No Green Card for Trump from Indigenous People - Duration: 6:27.
My dear relatives, before we say anything, we always thank the creator first.
My Lakota name is (unintelligible). My English name is Joann Spotted Bear.
I am an original descendant of the Little Big Horn, the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, World War I, World War II...
...1973 when the Lakota people went against the federal government, my father was a cop who walked off his job.
Today, I'm a national dignitary at the United Nations level.
I'm going to give you some real history about America.
The white man came here in 1492, that's the (unintelligible).
America was named after Amerigo Vespucci who died in 1512 of syphilis.
I kinda like that.
(laughter)
There's two court cases that describe America as not a country, Caha v. United States and Bond v. United States.
What every government across this country's not telling you, is in 1933 the United States went bankrupt...
...never ratified, never dialogued, never notified 564 federally recognized tribes, let alone North and South America and the world.
Donald Trump is an immigrant without a green card from all the indigenous people around the world.
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Quizzes - Reset Quiz Attempts for Learners - Instructor - Duration: 0:49.
For more infomation >> Quizzes - Reset Quiz Attempts for Learners - Instructor - Duration: 0:49. -------------------------------------------
Trump again urges McConnell to 'go nuclear' if needed for Supreme Court pick - Duration: 1:34.
Trump again urges McConnell to 'go nuclear' if needed for Supreme Court pick.
By GABBY MORRONGIELLO.
President Trump directed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Wednesday to employ
the nuclear option to confirm his Supreme Court nominee if Democrats try to stall the
process.
"If we end up with that gridlock, I would say if you can, Mitch, go nuclear," Trump
said Wednesday when asked Democrats' strategy to filibuster his nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Trump's request comes less than 24 hours after he named Gorsuch as his choice to replace
the late Justice Atonin Scalia on the Supreme Court bench.
Several Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., immediately
vowed to block the nominee from receiving confirmation without 60 votes.
Trump had previously told Fox News' Sean Hannity in an interview last month that he would advise
Senate Republicans to use the nuclear option, but his latest comments come after McConnell
seemed reluctant to do so.
"That's not a presidential decision.
That's a Senate decision," McConnell had told Politico after Trump's comments in late January.
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Groups & Discussions Tools - Use Private Discussions for Journaling - Instructor - Duration: 3:27.
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GRWM for a basketball game!! - Duration: 3:23.
Btw I did out on deoderant, the camera wasnt filming. And the store i got the chapstick at was Walmart.
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Engaging with Experts on Trending Topics: Realizing the Vision for Future Victim Services - Duration: 50:43.
Good afternoon and good morning to those of you
joining us in the Western U.S.
My name is Joye Frost and I'm the director of the Office for
Victims of Crime here at the Office of Justice Programs.
And I'm one of the many architects of the Vision 21:
Transforming Victim Services Strategic Initiative.
If you don't know much about Vision 21, I would encourage you
to go to ovc.gov and just put Vision 21 in the search engine.
And before I start my remarks, I want to thank the OVC
Training and Technical Assistance Center, Shelby
Crawford from OVC, and Juan Sutton [phonetic] from the
Office of Justice Programs for their efforts
to make this webinar happen.
So I want to start by concisely defining what Vision 21 is.
It's really an OVC initiative to work closely with victims,
survivors, service providers in the traditional victim
assistance field, as well as allied practitioners, to chart
out the strategy for reaching and serving every crime
victim in the 21st century.
And together we identified so many issues - probably not
surprising to those of you who are listening in:
Lack of capacity that was strongly related to underfunding
of our vital victim services.
(But thankfully Congress has addressed this
in the last two fiscal years.)
Lack of technology to ease access for many victims to
needed information and services as well as to reduce the
administrative burden on our practitioners.
We also identified that we really had to take a step
back and rethink the issue of who is the prime victim, and
expand our table, which is a pretty big table as it is, but
to make it even bigger to ensure a place for crime victims and
their leaders and advocates from marginalized and
disenfranchised populations.
We needed to address the new types of emerging crime and the
challenges they present and the important role that crime
victims must play, and crime victim advocates must play, not
just in the immediate aftermath of crimes, but ensuring that
our voices, all of our voices, are heard as our
communities, states, and country join together to reform our
criminal and juvenile systems, which is a pivotal piece of
reshaping our communities into havens of peace, safety, and
economic security for each and every one of us.
Interestingly enough, what we learned within months of
starting our Vision 21 Initiative is that we really
couldn't answer many or most of the questions
that we started out with.
And we couldn't answer them because there was an immense
lack of data and research to guide our efforts, or at least
access to that vital data and research.
So it is no mistake that the very first chapter in the
Vision 21 report addresses this gap.
At that time we did not have enough comprehensive and
meaningful victimization data or information on pragmatic,
inexpensive ways to conduct program evaluation, or
evidence-based practices to meet the myriad needs of an
increasingly diverse population of victims.
Well, I'm standing here almost 5 years later, and I have to say
we still don't have all that we need, but we have made
great progress to report today.
One of the issues that we identified in that first chapter
was the need for translation and communication between
researchers and practitioners and not, I
will add, one way communication.
OVC for the first time has a visiting fellowship program
that addresses this issue.
So we have brought on a joint OVC-Bureau
of Justice Statistics fellow.
So it's my privilege today to introduce Heather Warnken, who
is the first OVC-BJS fellow in the first-ever position designed
to improve the use, dissemination, and, very
importantly, translation of statistical data and social
science research for the Crime Victim Assistance Bill.
Before joining DOJ, Heather spent 5 years as a legal policy
associate at the Warren Institute on Law and Social
Policy at the University of California
Berkeley School of Law.
While there, she led many multidisciplinary projects
utilizing research and collaborative partnerships to
bridge the gap between research, policy, and practice, including
two statewide assessments on how to improve access to victim
services and compensation for underserved victims of crime.
She also worked at the San Francisco Juvenile Probation
Department to develop policies and procedures to improve
outcomes for youth, advance recommendations of the
congressionally chartered Commission on Education,
Equity, and Excellence, and as a research partner to Californians
for Safety and Justice.
She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Murphy, Jr.,
Court of Appeals of Maryland, and has provided pro bono legal
services in domestic violence and child welfare matters.
I actually could go on and on, but I think I will conclude with
the fact that she holds an LL.M. from UC Berkeley School of Law,
a J.D. cum laude with pro bono distinction from Suffolk
University Law School, and a B.A. with honors
from Johns Hopkins University.
I think there is probably no more ideal person to fill this
first position and really set the benchmarks
for those who will follow.
Heather has done incredible work in her slightly over 8 months
here at OVC and BJS, and I know you will find her overview of
some very important initiatives to be both
thought-provoking and engaging.
Heather, thank you for your efforts and for
leading this discussion today.
[applause]
Thank you so much, Joye, and good afternoon, everyone.
It's really an honor to be here with you.
So even in this unprecedented era of criminal justice reform
where historic bipartisan consensus around the need to
make data-driven decisions with our public safety dollars is on
the radar of policymakers, practitioners, the media, and
even the President of the United States, we are in many ways
still just scratching the surface on understanding an
essential piece to any discussion on public safety, the
persistent lack of access to services, healing, and recovery
for far too many victims of crime.
The voices of victims and those on the frontlines serving them
have been absent or seen a limited role, or
under-representative role, in the
media and policymaking table.
Even in the advent of historic victories achieved during the
Crime Victims' Rights Movement decades ago, the needs of
victims have often been oversimplified and codified with
a narrow focus on rights within the justice system or
harsh sentencing policies.
This departure from the more holistic and diverse goals of
the grassroots movement for survivors has been amplified by
another reality that Vision 21 made clear, that those
victories, hard-fought and secured on behalf of all
victims, have too often been little more than promises on
paper or unfunded mandates disconnected from the lived
experiences of many attempting to overcome their trauma
alone in the aftermath of crime.
As a survivor of violent crime myself, I have experienced this
disconnect firsthand where my experience of a prompt,
compassionate response from law enforcement that never
questioned my status as a victim nor impeded my desire to report,
of knowing and understanding my rights in the justice process,
of having access to an advocate to help me navigate it, to
health insurance and a range of other options for formal and
informal support to meet my physical, emotional, and
financial needs - all of that culturally appropriate and
effective enough to help get me back on my feet.
The reality is this experience has looked nothing like the
experience of hundreds of survivors I've had the privilege
of connecting with around the Nation throughout
the course of this work.
It is hard for me to fathom knowing that, even with that
range of resources, healing can be an uphill climb.
This disconnect is affirmed by the data.
My experience was the exception, not the rule.
Yet as we convene here today, we also do so in a powerful moment
of optimism guided by Vision 21, unprecedented resources, and a
growing set of tools to use them effectively, the implications
of which I'll discuss today.
However, borrowing from the words of Dr. King, we also know
that change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.
Much like greater awareness of the existence of victim services
is not a panacea for success or equity in this field, neither in
itself is a historic increase in funding.
Harnessing these dollars effectively, driven by data
relevant and translatable to all corners of this field, requires
the continuous recognition that, much like victims, victim
services providers are not a monolithic group.
Whether measured by the victims they serve or the conditions in
which they serve them, their perspectives vary tremendously.
Their experiences are shaped daily by the role that race,
gender, sexual orientation, disability, and poverty play in
creating divergent challenges and divergent realities for
victims as in so many aspects of life.
It will require bridging the divide across researchers and
practitioners and across disciplines long siloed yet
indispensable to our success, expanding the tent of the field
as we know it to include new strategies to reach
the unseen and the unserved.
Thanks to Vision 21 and Joye's leadership,
we are up for that challenge.
So let's dive in.
So Vision 21 as the first major assessment of the field in 15
years, as Joye mentioned, serves as a comprehensive blueprint for
the ways in which reality has not kept pace with the
rights and services for all victims that we've committed
to over the past 30 years.
Notwithstanding the dearth of data we have to inform this
field, we know through the National Crime Victimization
Survey that only 9 percent of victims of serious violence
access services from a victim service agency.
And this already low number plummets to 4 percent when the
crime is unreported, approximately half.
We also know that often those most likely to experience crime
are often the least likely to access support.
These survivors are likely to be young, low income, and of color.
In fact, the NCVS found that only 8 percent of juvenile
victims receive services compared
to 13 percent of those 35 to 49.
We also know this varies tremendously across various
crime types, with about 22 percent of rape and sexual
assault victims and about 21 percent of DV
[domestic violence] victims reporting receiving services
compared to only 8 percent of aggravated and simple assault;
5 percent of males compared to 14 percent of females.
We also know that victimizations reported to the police are far
more likely to get services than those not reported, making the
many complex barriers to reporting, including the
relationship that victims have, and their communities have, with
law enforcement incredibly important.
Moreover, a recent study from the Injury Prevention Research
Center at the University of Iowa, using NCVS data published
in just July of this year, found that reporting victimization is
associated with fewer future victimizations, underscoring the
relationship of reporting not only to accessing service but
to crime prevention overall.
So as Joye mentioned, Vision 21 highlighted that the current
research and statistical infrastructure has not kept pace
with the service infrastructure built over the last 20 years.
OVC has coupled this vision of moving the field toward a future
where evidence based, data-driven practice is the
norm, with a number of bold investments designed to make
that possible, including bringing its existing
collaborations with its sister agencies here at the Office of
Justice Programs to the next level.
So though my focus today will be on those collaborations with the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, I do want to note that OVC has
also been working closely with the National Institute of
Justice, including efforts to better understand the financial
cost of victimization, the experiences of at-risk groups,
a study on the national victimization of tribal youth,
restorative justice programs, and the incredibly important
overlap between victims and those who commit harm.
NIJ itself is also investing in a range of activities to create
better linkages in its portfolio and to bridge the gap, including
its dissemination series "Research for the Real World."
So why are these investments so crucial right now?
Demographic shifts within the population, globalization, and
evolving crime types such as trafficking, cyber, and
environmental crime demand new strategies from the field.
But along with Vision 21, Congress has also bestowed the
potential to rise to this challenge, nearly quadrupling
Victims of Crime Act funding in the past two fiscal years,
a level that will continue with approximately $2.578 billion
flowing to the states in the next fiscal year.
This formula grant fund program already supports more than 4,000
different victim assistance programs annually through
subgrants to local public agencies and providers.
And this year we'll come hand-in-hand with a new rule
interpreting the use and administration of these funds
years in the making and released just this August 8th.
This rule provides clarity and greater flexibility to state
administering agencies to support a continuum of services
that have often been scarce or unavailable to victims in the
past, including comprehensive legal assistance, transitional
housing, expanded coverage of relocation expenses, and the
use of these funds for forensic interviews and medical exams.
And perhaps one of the biggest sea changes of all, it removed
language that restricted the use of this funding to support
services to victims currently and formerly incarcerated in
detention and correctional facilities.
Together these create unprecedented opportunities for
training, for delineation of roles and
evidence-based decisionmaking.
But to realize that vision, we must place our data collection
efforts in timely policy and practical context of a field
truly in transition, measuring what is and what will be rather
than what has always been.
This is what bridging the divide is all about.
As described in the Vision 21 report, "One of the principal
challenges in advancing research to improve crime victim services
is the lack of communication and collaboration among
researchers and practitioners.
Practitioners are often unaware of information critical to their
work, and even when they are aware, they may be unable to
interpret or apply the findings in appropriate context,
especially those not presented in a straightforward,
understandable way.
Across many fields research often lacks a clear explanation
of its implications for practice nor the tools to translate its
relevance to the locally driven challenges that overwhelmed
practitioners often face."
In furtherance of OVC's commitment to bridging the
longstanding and seemingly intractable translation gap
between researchers and practitioners, in collaboration
with BJS as Joye mentioned, it launched the first-ever in-house
position to specifically address it.
This comes hand-in-hand with two other major efforts, including
launching this year a new national resource center, one
for research and evaluation and one focused on underserved
communities, to help further bridge this gap for state
administering agencies that we are so excited about.
Threading through all of these bridging-the-gap efforts and why
this concept has eluded so many fields for so long is that at
the end of the day this is a process, and it's not formulaic.
It's about the hard, long-term work of finding the sweet spot,
the sweet spot where rigorous scientific method meets the
messiness and tremendous diversity of the real life that
it seeks to measure, where data-driven and reality-driven
can actually be one and the same.
So in that spirit I'm going to take off this wonky hat for a
minute to give you some examples of what that amorphous
concept actually means to me.
Bridging the gap is not just about better dissemination and
translation of existing data.
Equally important, if not more so, is putting practitioners in
impacted communities at the design and decisionmaking table
of what information gets collected and why, and
continuing to engage throughout the process those closest to and
most impacted by the information that we seek.
It means thinking about translation and dissemination on
the front end of these activities, not 5 years down the
line when a project concludes with a dense report tied in a
bow, the type too often that collects dust on a shelf, in an
inbox, or simply arrives too late to be relevant.
Take OVC's Supporting Male Survivors of Violence
Initiative, for example.
The last webcast in this Vision 21 series actually featured some
of the rock stars leading that work nationally, and over 1,000
registered nationwide, hungry for the information that these
sites and these experts had to share.
This speaks to the need for information, learning, and
connection on these issues now, especially in serving young
males of color, a population so overrepresented in
victimization and so underrepresented in the
literature and in access to services.
We can't wait 5 years down the line to share the groundbreaking
learning that's going to come out of these 12 demonstration
sites throughout the country.
How do we build the infrastructure to make sure that
dissemination and translation and access to these moves
forward, happens in real time?
This also means engaging new audiences and new stakeholders,
such as the collaboration with the Federal Interagency Reentry
Council that OVC has recently engaged in, not only at such a
timely and historic moment when the restriction of funds for
programs serving currently or formerly incarcerated survivors
is now removed, but also at a moment when we can actually
leverage the current momentum of such a diverse group of
agencies, one considered one of the most successful
collaborations to emerge from the Federal Government, to
operate with the recognition that an astounding number of
those entering the criminal and juvenile justice system and
reentering society on the back end have themselves been victims
of crime - often whose trauma has gone unaddressed - and to
work together to actually do something about it.
Using the hook of National Crime Victims' Rights Week, which has
long been commemorated in this country, and the first-ever
National Reentry Week, which was commemorated by President Obama
for the first time this year, and a blog format that was more
accessible potentially than a dense report, I teamed up with
my friend and colleague Daryl Atkinson, DOJ's first-ever
"second chance" fellow, to co-author a piece across these
silos, elevating existing data to demonstrate that though only
a week separates these observances on the calendar, the
gulf of public perception - who society envisions as a
victim and a perpetrator of crime - is much wider, often to
the detriment of getting people the help they need.
We called for a unification of the efforts to develop a body
of knowledge that's already happening in both spaces to
create one body of knowledge capable of helping
policymakers and the public break down false distinctions
in an overlapping world.
The inspiring results to me exemplify the essence of
bridge-building, for which there is often no blueprint.
Rather, it's about forging ahead with ideas that never would
have been possible until everyone came into the room.
So, stepping back and looking at some of the limitations of our
existing data, there are so many current sources of information
so relevant to the victim assistance field, but when taken
alone they can feel very limiting.
This includes the Uniform Crime Report, which although it
provides valuable information for more than 18,000 law
enforcement agencies in this country and useful data about
yearly trends, it does not capture what we think of as the
dark figure of crime, that which is unreported and that
that we know is one of our greatest
corollaries to the underserved.
The National Crime Victimization Survey, the annual collection
from a nationally representative sample of nearly 160,000 people,
does, making it such a key source of information
since its inception in 1972.
But though the NCVS elicits information on many relevant
variables for the victim assistance field, including
victimization that goes under the radar of law enforcement,
currently it is also limited in a number of ways, including not
collecting information on victimization of children
younger than 12, not collecting information on certain crime
types such as drunk driving and homicide, and not reflecting the
experience of some of our most vulnerable victims, including
those who are homeless, transient, or experiencing
victimization in institutional or correctional settings.
This is such important context for appreciating the
value to the field that BJS's expanded
victimization unit will bring.
Vision 21 goals were already central to BJS's mission of
providing information of critical importance to federal,
state, and local policymakers and their efforts toward a more
integrated set of data that's better aligned to answer
questions within the field.
One component of this effort to improve data quality and utility
is a large-scale redesign and modernization of the NCVS,
adding key questions surrounding whether victims receive services
and, of those who do, what type of assistance they received.
Also significant, these questions - many of which will
be added in an ask-all manner - will create a denominator.
So rather than just being answered by victims through an
incident report, we will be able to compare the experiences and
perceptions of victims who self-report to those who do not.
This also includes the NCVS subnational program, delivering
the ability to couple victimization statistics and
other sources of information to better understand patterns of
risk, reporting, and resource allocation at the local level.
The lack of state and local-level data has long been a
barrier to use of the NCVS by practitioners in the field.
So this is a really big deal to have this breakdown.
You can see from this teaser some of the early results of
just how meaningful this deeper, granular level analysis can be.
I mean, Texas, wow: Let's start to understand why the NCVS says
you're so far ahead of the curve.
We often think about this data through victims' experiences and
through victims' lenses.
We think about victims' pathways to services and, therefore, our
data collection efforts have tended to
understandably focus on victims.
But data from providers is equally important, providing
another critical vantage point.
What is the demand for services?
Do service providers have the staffing, the funding, the
training, and the other resources
to actually be effective?
That is why, catching up with two decades of program
development from OVC and the Office of Violence against Women
to enhance the Nation's capacity to assist victims, BJS has also
launched the Victim Services Research Program to collect and
analyze new data from the diverse
entities that serve victims.
This includes a collaboration between BJS and the National
Center for Health Statistics to develop a national survey of
hospital-based victim services to understand the range of
services available at such a critical point of access and one
that to date we've known very little about.
BJS has also added questions about victim services to
existing surveys of law enforcement agencies and
prosecutor's offices and together all of these efforts
will offer the most comprehensive picture of victim
service provision to date.
Another brand-new effort at the cornerstone of all of this is
the National Census of Victim Service Providers.
You can see the diverse expertise of the project team
selected by a competitive solicitation by BJS and OVC
starting in the fall of 2012.
Driven by input from the field, the project team has worked with
both an expert panel and a project input committee of
diverse representation, first to assist in drafting an effective
survey instrument and to answer follow-up questions on issues of
importance and evolution to the field, and also to assist in
identifying a diverse sample for testing.
So what will this census tell us?
How many of what kinds of providers there are or what
types of services are available, what are the average budgets for
these programs, and what are their sources of funding.
Notwithstanding this process that has included ongoing
engagement with the field, finding that sweet spot and
defining what we actually mean when we say the victim services
field across such a diverse landscape has remained
challenging, especially during this period of
unprecedented growth and change.
Lists of existing providers are often incomplete,
out-of-date, and missing items necessary
to draw a representative sample.
The many topics and items of interest to victim assistance
also presents a very challenging balancing act.
If too many questions are included on a survey, it could
present a burden on respondents leading to low response rates
that are not generalizable and not conducive to the busy lives
of practitioners in the field.
Furthermore, informal service providers may not have the
staffing or capacity to record key information, but they are no
less important in this landscape, especially in
many underserved communities.
So, addressing these challenges: In order to do that, the project
shifted to implementation in two phases.
Phase one, the census phase - that will survey the complete
roster of approximately 31,000 entities nationally.
It will refine this roster, produce a clear picture of who
is identifying as a VSP throughout the country, using
basic characteristics of the organizations at a high level.
Then, phase two: moving to the more detailed survey.
This will use information gathered from phase one to
hopefully create a nationally representative sample of
VSPs and engage them in a more detailed way.
So creating this complete picture obviously means asking
the right questions, but it also means continuing to inspire and
promote the consistency in their answers.
And part of what that entails is the hard work of understanding
the subcultures and subcommunities within the field,
a field spanning so many contexts and professions.
So one area that jumped out immediately was law
enforcement-based victim services, especially given the
fervor currently around our national conversation on
policing and how infrequently the relevance of this to
crime-victim assistance is discussed.
The pilot findings of the NCVSP also indicated there seemed to
be some inconsistency or misinterpretation on the part of
law enforcement respondents, some of them answering questions
in how staffing and resources in their organizations were
allocated when it came to victims.
For example, some law enforcement agencies, assuming
that given that serving victims is such an integral part of what
they do, seemed to be answering questions about their entire
budget or their entire staff capacity, which is such a
different thing than having dedicated victim advocates
focused on serving victims.
So this is a big deal, and being caught in the pilot phase
allowed for us to do more engagement and outreach to
that community of practitioners.
This inspired engagement with key bodies such as the
International Association of Chiefs of Police Victim Services
Committee and efforts to better understand the current continuum
of law enforcement-based victim services, and a site visit to
one such program that is considered the gold standard of
robust law enforcement integrated assistance - a police
department that features on-staff 24/7 licensed clinical
social workers with specialized training in trauma to meet the
needs of victims, the Austin Police Department, which stands
in contrast to what anecdote has told us is definitely
the exception and not the rule.
This also involved working with my colleagues at BJS to look
across other sources of data that may be highly relevant but
less frequently recognized as so important
to the victim assistance field.
That included LEMAS, the Law Enforcement Management and
Administrative Statistics, which is a survey that BJ puts out
that is responded to by all agencies in the entire country
of a hundred sworn officers or more and a nationally
representative sample of those less than a hundred.
And so what did we find?
So, LEMAS was sitting there all along putting numbers behind
something the field has so frequently pointed
to anecdote to say is a gap.
LEMAS - buried in this survey - asks a specific question of all
agencies about their capacity for victim assistance and asks
agencies to put themselves in one of five categories.
The gold star category is a specialized unit within the
department with full time personnel dedicated to victim
assistance; in other words, what I saw in Austin.
The next category, a specialized unit with part-time personnel
- you can see what a minority those agencies were with only
9 percent in the first and 4 percent in the second.
The third category - maybe they didn't have a specialized unit,
but the agency at least had dedicated personnel focused
on serving victims, 12 percent.
The following category, no dedicated personnel but the
agency at least had related policies, procedures, or
training focused on victim assistance, 54 percent.
Now, in 2013 when this data, the latest LEMAS, was collected, I
would have assumed - given the incredible advancements in the
field, especially through laws and policies that require law
enforcement to play a meaningful role in victim assistance,
sometimes even through state constitutional amendments that
give law enforcement a role in handing out information or
meaningfully connecting victims with services - I would
have thought that it was practically illegal for a law
enforcement agency to put itself past category
four at this point in time.
Yet 20 percent of law enforcement agencies in this
country were putting themselves in category five.
They were not formally addressing
victim assistance at all.
BJS, in an NCVS local companion study this fall, is exploring a
deeper set of questions on these issues, addressing perceptions
of police, focusing heavily on concepts of procedural
justice and legitimacy.
This will be another key tool in a comprehensive picture of
community wellbeing that goes beyond
just factors of violent crime.
So looking at the pilot results, which was conducted from
August 2015 to January 2016 to a roster of about 700 VSPs, a
report with all pilot results is currently in progress and
forthcoming to the field.
But overall this process affirmed the importance of
beginning this step with a high-level census in order to
move toward that more detailed step.
You can see the distribution of participating
entities throughout the field.
The pilot and full census will also break down with much
greater granularity the types of providers within these broad
categories of government and nonprofit to better understand
the challenges that different entities face.
So, for which crime types did victims seek services?
Most VSPs saw a broad range of victims in the
past calendar or fiscal year.
More than 70 percent of victims reported that their services
were sought for eight or more different crime types.
However, government-based VSPs tended to see a more diverse
group of victims than nonprofit or faith-based.
What does it mean for the field that a government-based entity
might see a greater range of crime types than a nonprofit,
especially given the limitations of access to government-based
services for certain groups such as those less likely
to report their victimization?
What does this mean for victims of limited means such as those
at or below the federal poverty line who see more than double
the rate of violent victimization as persons in high
income households, who may be more greatly impacted by
limited points of access?
What would it take to grow the range of community-based
programs designed to meet a broader
range of victim centered needs?
In general, the majority of VSPs reported relatively small paid
staff sizes, but staff sizes differed for nonprofit or
faith-based entities compared to those based in the government.
Thirty-six percent of government-based
VSPs reported turnover in staff.
This was in contrast to the 55 percent of nonprofit or
faith-based entities that reported the same.
Nonprofit or faith-based entities were also far more
likely to use volunteers, once again putting data behind
something often cited as anecdote.
How about concerns?
Here you can see across a broad range of issues that to date
we've had no data to support.
You can see high levels of concern.
But notably and perhaps unsurprisingly you can see a
greater level of concern on these issues from
nonprofit or faith based VSPs.
This was true for staff retention, the burden of grant
reporting, and access to technology.
But it was especially true for funding received in the past
year and the predictability of future funding.
This is why we need you.
Providers and policymakers throughout the country
can help by spreading the word.
You can tune in to upcoming webinars to learn more about
this process, including September 28th,
October 13th, and November 7th.
And I encourage you to check out the
project website to learn more.
You can also share the survey link as widely as possible.
This is not a survey that can only go to those who
are on that roster of 31,000.
Critically important, this can be administered to entities
that are not on the radar thus far, that were less likely to be
on a list, especially those entities that haven't in the
past received government funding.
The full survey will launch in October and it's imperative that
we have as diverse representation as possible to
help bring this picture to life, the full picture to life.
So as Vision 21 noted, VOCA is largely silent on the issue of
prevention: research, program evaluation, the use of
technology, and the need for collaborative and
multijurisdictional responses to victims, and the capacity of
jurisdictions to provide increasingly
complex and long-term support.
According to Vision 21, "the field will continue to push for
a larger role in primary prevention."
Now, the new VOCA rule will help address some of this, but
especially in order to effectively plug in to the
national movement around criminal justice reinvestment
taking place, where data-driven prevention is the cornerstone,
we must support the victim assistance
field in connecting these dots.
Connecting the dots with proven strategies from the public
health field such as Cure Violence, Healing Hurt
People, and a robust set of other hospital-based
interventions and models, many of which are at the forefront
currently of OVC's 12 demonstration sites in the
Supporting Male Survivors of Violence Initiative.
This connection with public health is especially imperative
as increasing data emerges on the role of trauma and the
stakes of overreliance on justice system-based strategies
that may not be effective or realistic
for all victims of crime.
More and more research is building on the groundbreaking
Adverse Childhood Experience Study, or ACES, which was a
study carried out by CDC and Kaiser Permanente of over 17,000
adults, one of the largest investigations ever to make the
link empirically between child trauma and adult problems
including future violence.
As also stated in Vision 21, notwithstanding all of that
progress, "American society has yet to embrace the causal
relationship between childhood victimization and later criminal
behavior or repeat victimization."
We also must continuously relentlessly place data,
especially emerging data, in context to guard against its
misuse and misinterpretation.
And last, on this definitely not exhaustive list of persistent
challenges but one that I will mention today, is the importance
of combining this national level of data that's being created and
that currently exists with local level
data, that that will remain key.
The NCVS national program and these two new surveys will be an
amazing contribution to the field and to fill the
information gap, but they'll never replace state and locally
driven efforts to collect data that speaks directly to the
challenges that that individual jurisdiction may face.
So in conclusion, once again this is why we need all of you,
all of you throughout the country.
Currently I have the profound honor of serving you here as
both a translator and a conduit of information across divisions.
That is truly the best that I can be, a conduit of your
voices, and I want you to know that I'm always here to listen,
that my colleagues are always here to listen.
As we sit amidst this optimism in this historic moment and at
the precipice of monumental work that is still to come, the
urgent need for a trauma informed, data-driven paradigm
for victim services has never been more clear.
Victims will continue to have unique paths to justice and
healing, their own unique conceptualizations of what all
of that means, their own unique set of needs.
But this vision will continue to recognize a unifying common
denominator, one that builds this bridge: that victims of all
backgrounds and circumstances share a common need to feel safe
and to rebuild their lives, and that there are courageous
service providers all throughout this country that are
making that possible every day.
If improving the use, dissemination, and translation
of data and research still sounds wonky, I don't blame you,
but I do hope that I've communicated to you today
something very important, the premise upon which this is
built, the premise upon which OVC and BJS have made these
commitments to realizing a new vision for this field: that good
ideas, innovation, and policy victories are only worth their
salt in the trenches of human dignity; that the
practitioners and survivors who live in these trenches, they are
the heart of this work; that data-driven anything means
nothing if not grounded in the world that we live in; and that
we can do so much better than we do now.
Thank you.
[applause]
And I know we'd be so happy to take your questions, either
those in the room or those who are tuned in nationally who can
email their questions to the OVC TTAC web that is currently
up on the slide right now.
[pause]
Any questions?
[pause]
Do you know if in the last 10 years there are statistics that
show that victimization is being reported
more than it was 10 years ago?
No.
We don't have - or we have definitive data that speaks to
that, and unfortunately it's remained flat that the reporting
rates are still incredibly low.
This may not be a fair question, but that's okay, Heather.
Okay.
We hear so much and much of this is from the media and of course
it's always oversimplified, but it talks about rising rates of
violence in certain urban cities or urban communities, but it
talks about a lower level of crimes overall
since the eighties, for example.
I'm not completely convinced of that, and I have shared that
with both NIJ and BJS because I think the nature of crime is
changing so much and so much of crime and victimization is not
being captured by any instrument.
I just wondered about your thoughts about that.
Yeah.
That's a great question and I think it speaks directly to the
need of granularity in our victimization data because when
we oversimplify, we miss those disparities, exactly the
ones that you're speaking to.
It's also, I think, directly on point to this issue of context,
context, context because the NCVS, for example, and some
other sources of data in recent years have potentially been
demonstrating a leveling out of certain disparities in
victimization, for example, across certain racial groups,
but there are a lot of different factors
that could be influencing that.
And so thinking about not just what the data says but how it's
being collected and who it's being collected from,
I think remains so important.
So again, like I spoke about earlier with the NCVS being a
household-driven survey, who especially in an era of
over-incarceration might not be participating in a
household-driven survey because of transient or
justice system involvement?
So I think there are no clear answers to that question, but I
think it's part of why bridging the gap so that these points
about changes, about trends that we run with in public policy,
are really appreciated for the context.
Hi.
I have two questions.
The first is a multipart one so I guess I'll ask it and
then you can answer and then you'll answer...ok.
So the first one is, you mentioned that reporting
victimization resulted in a reduction
of future victimization.
Could you explain why?
Is it because victims have some sort of empowerment to leave
dangerous situations or is it that there's evidence that the
system actually works, that perpetuators are arrested,
tried, and then put away?
So, I think that's part of also a theme that we've been talking
about, that there's only so much that national-level
statistical data can tell us.
And so that study, which actually just came out last
month, and I am happy to email to you in case it'd be helpful
to read through some of the conclusions that the author
might have drawn, that study was based on
national-level statistical data.
So I think we need to overlay that quantitative picture with a
more deeper qualitative analysis that I think would cover
across a range of many factors.
You know there are many factors why victims do or don't
report and many factors that drive their satisfaction and
maybe their safety and stability after they do.
So based on statistical data we can't answer that completely.
And my second question is, of the 31,000 victim service
providers, do you know how many of them are tribally based?
Not so far, and that's one of the reasons that having the
census, the first one ever, will be
such an important step forward.
Agencies will be able to designate whether or not they
are a tribal VSP, so having that number and then being able to
couple it with what we know about victimization in those
areas will be a major way to understand that picture.
Okay.
If we've got no further questions, I think we're going
to wrap up for today, and I just want to thank everyone so much,
those here in the room and those who have joined us throughout
the country, and I look forward to engaging
with you moving forward.
[applause]
I'm just going to bring up Joye for some closing remarks.
Well actually, my closing remark is to once again thank Heather
for such a great presentation, and she shared her contact
information with you and I strongly urge
you to follow up with Heather.
She's just amazing, amazingly helpful to us in OVC, and I know
she would be the same with all of you in the field.
And she actually loves going out in the field because that really
is where the change happens.
So I want to thank everybody that listened in today for the
work that you do on a daily basis and taking time out of
your very busy day to join us.
So thank you, and this concludes this webinar and we
hope you join us for many more.
Thanks.
[applause]
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Hi guys, it's me. I'm finally back
I know it's been so long since I last uploaded a video
Oh God... so many things have happened in my personal life that have affected my channel
and my other social medias... but, oh well...
I am going to work on this and do my best to upload regularly
Well, as you can see I am in a new location. That's one of the things that have happened, that I moved
and it's been a mess. And , as you can tell, it has affected my channel
So, well... what are we going to do today?
I am just going to keep with the basic 'Irene style' of videos
in which I just draw a little bit and I just show you the process behind my drawings
Since I moved, I've been trying to decorate my flat with personalised drawings and all that
So, I think that I want to do that. I want to draw something that I would want to hang on my wall
that is i the same style of my previous drawings. Which you can check on my Instagram account
In which I've upload a think a few of the drawings I am going to hang on my wall
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when they come by to your house
Let's start!
So guys, what I've been doing recently is picturing the drawing on my mind before I do it
and decide which style and materials I want to go for
because I've really been playing around with materials and techniques
and one great artist that inspires my drawings recently is Isabelle Arsenault
I got this book because it was recommended by another one of my favourite artists, Frannerd
And since then, I've been mesmerised by Isabella and all of her magical textures that she applies in her drawings
they are just breathtaking
I am going to change and start using this 9B, graphite pencil
which is going to creaet really dark and blendable textures
which are going to enrich the whole drawing
when you work with really bendable pencils like this one
one thing that you start noticing is that, as you draw, you are smudging the drawing and all the textures you created
So, what I've learnt... or the best solution for this, is to put a small piece of paper
or wax paper... anything that you could have around your house
and put it under your hand. So, in this way, you are not smudging the drawing
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Wrangler RedRock 4x4 Pinnacle Oval Side Step w/ Bent Ends (2007-2017 JK 4 Door) Review & Install - Duration: 4:40.
I'm Ryan from extremeterrain.com, and this is my review and installation of the RedRock
4x4 Pinnacle Side Step with bent ends, fitting all 2007 to 2017 JKs.
These are available for both the two-door and the four-door JK.
Today we are gonna talk about the construction and the installation of these side steps.
These side steps are for those of you who wanna make it easier to get in and out of
your lifted or even stock height JK.
These have a really large wide stepping pad even bigger than a lot of the other oval or
round side steps on the market.
So, these are really all about function.
They also, because of their oval shape, do have a little bit of a different look, so,
if this is something you're after, I think they are definitely worth it.
They're priced aggressively and as far as the step goes, they're definitely functional.
These are a steel step that are covered in a black powder coat finish and they have these
really large plastic non-slip stepping pads.
These are so that if you are in the mud or the rain or snow, you're gonna be able to
step on this and not slide around, making it a lot easier to get in and out of your
Jeep.
Now, as I mentioned before, these are an oval step so, they have a bit of a lower profile
than some of the round steps on the market, and the bent ends just finish them off a little
bit and give a really nice to look to your Jeep especially from the profile view.
Now, a side step like this is not going to be armored.
In fact, this is going to decrease your ground clearance and it's definitely not going to
hold up to being banged off of trail obstacles.
So, if you are somebody who goes off-roading a lot and needs something that's gonna hold
up, or at least doesn't want something that's going to get damaged when they're on the trail,
I would not recommend taking a look at this.
RedRock 4x4 does make armor as well as Barricade, Smittybilt, Rugged Ridge and a host of other
brands.
A lot of that armor also has a step built into it, so you get best of both worlds.
However, armor even with a step built into it, is going to be a lot more expensive than
these side steps.
And the step that you get that's built into armor, usually isn't as user-friendly as this
one is.
The step is often an afterthought to the protection offered by the armor.
So, a step like this is going to be less expensive and far more functional as a step, however,
it's not great for off-roading.
If you are somebody who spends most of your time on road, this is gonna be a great option
and it will protect you against some door dings.
As far as installation, this install is in much the same way as a lot of the other side
steps on the market from a lot of different brands.
There are brackets included that will attach to both the pinch seam and the underside of
the tub.
Once you get those brackets installed, you can go ahead and screw the step bar onto your
newly installed brackets and you're finished.
Now, Jeep did change the tub design a little bit.
Some of you will have an open hole in the bottom of the tub, and others will have a
threaded hole.
Those of you with an open hole will use the included nut plate, and those of you with
a threaded hole won't need those.
So, at the end of this installation, you may have a couple of parts left over, but don't
worry about it.
Just follow the instructions carefully and this is an easy install for anyone who has
basic hand tools and about an hour of time.
I would recommend if you are one of those people that has threaded holes in the bottom
of your Jeep, and you either live in an environment where you get a lot of rust, or you take your
Jeep off road a lot, to have a tap handy that you can run up into that threaded hole in
the bottom of the Jeep, just to make sure it's nice and clean before you put one of
those new bolts in there and have a chance of cross threading it.
I think that these are priced really appropriately for what they are.
I've mentioned a couple times there are a lot of brands that make side steps, these
ones are a little bit more unique because they have an even wider and larger stepping
surface, they have a flatter oval look to them with the bent ends.
It's just a little bit of a different flavor onto a side step that's available from a lot
of different manufacturers.
And this side step is priced right around where the others ones are.
It can be very functional, it looks good, installs easy.
All in all, I'd say it's worth the price.
So, if you're looking for a side step to help you get in and out of your lifted or even
stock height JK and you're not after armor that's going to be that heavy duty protection
for your rockers, I would definitely recommend taking a look at this step.
There may be a lot of other options out there, but this does have a little bit of a twist
as far as the aesthetics and it's very functional especially for the price.
So, that's my review of the RedRock 4x4 Pinnacle Oval Side Step with bent ends, fitting all
2007 to 2017 JKs, that you can find right here at extremeterrain.com.
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